Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05

I. .. Q. F.
TUESDAY evening at Odd Fellows Hall, al 80
O'Clock p. m. All members of the order are
cordially invited to attend.
The Northeast Kansas Editorial
ssociation will meet in Concordia on
May 10th.
Philip Krohn succeeds Noble l..
Prcn.iss as editor of Atchison Cham
pion. Mr.. Prentiss will take editorial
charge of a Newton, Kas., paper.
The New York World says in 1861
Kansas ranked as the thirty first state
in the union; in 1870 it was twenty
ninth; in 1880 twentieth, and is now
fifteen. To the stars. etc.
We give this week the law making
section lines highways in Thomas
OF course where a road is not on Sec
ton line, it can be made a highway
under the old law, now in full opera
ton excepting in respect of section
roads.
Not many years ago when a man
suddenly disappeared his friends
dragged the rivers and examined all
the convenient hanging places. But
times have changed Now they drag
out his bank account and examine the
Canada hotel registers This is pro
gressive age.
Abilene Gazette The state of Kan
sas is now pretty much in the hands of
newspaper men. The governor, lieut.
enant governor, the commissioner OF
insurance, one of the three railroad
commissioners, to say nothing of a
score of minor officers, are newspaper
sfellers," and still everything runs
we'll and smooth.
| Kansas is the state that leads them
all. She leads in immigration, in pro
ductive soil, in stock. in minerals, in
cities and towns, in enterprising news
papers, in railroads and other respects
and in only few short years viii
rank second to no other state in any
particular. Soon Kansas will have
made her mark in the production Of
coal, there having been over 10000,
900 bushels mined last winter.
The statement is made that twenty
nine foreigners own 2O,647 900 acres
of land in the United Statcs-presum
ably in large tracts. This would make
an area about as large as the foul
states of Massachusetts, Connecticut
Vermont and New Hampshire com
bined-or about the size of Ireland. 1
the above statement is true, and NJ
doubt it is partly grounded on fact, i
discloses an evil which demands
prompt. firm treatment.
Hurrah for the great Northwest
This year northwest Kansas begins t.
feel that she should advertise ant
boom the best country on earth
Southwest Kansas with its sandhill
has doomed for long while becaus
it advertised. Now how much NOR
will our country boom if we advertise
because of its superior soil, water ant
level land. Here is your garden spot
where no crop fails, and everything
planted yields an abundant harvest
Here is Colby, the future great railroad
center of northwestern Kansas, tn
liveliest and fastest growing town il
the west. Full of the best and mos
enterprising citizens, no croakers, NJ
laggards, none but have stuff in then
to build up city and country. Her
is Thomas county-you have read o
it, and it is all they have said abou
. it. No encomium too extravagan
can be lavished upon her. Here sh
is. fertile. level. well watered. out o
debt, no county seat fight. no dissen
sion, the banner county of the state
without peer. Behold her broad
teeming prairies, fields of grain ant
corn. No better or grander sight eve
feasted the eyes of men. Colby's ad
vantages and the inducements tina
; Thomas county offers cannot be told i
year. Come and see for yourself
Come to buy Colby lots, or farm, Q
railroad land. Come to stay if yO
can. Come anyway.